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stingy

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Etymology 1

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Uncertain, possibly fromstinge, a dialectal variation ofsting(verb).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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stingy (comparativestingier,superlativestingiest)

  1. Unwilling tospend, give, orshare;ungenerous;mean.
    • 1909,Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter XVIII, inAnne of Avonlea:
      "Well, I'm doing my best to grow," said Davy, "but it's a thing you can't hurry much. If Marilla wasn't sostingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster."
  2. Small,scant,meager,insufficient.
    • 1985 April 13, Charles Henry Fuller, “Learning to Draw my Name”, inGay Community News, page 8:
      The realization of this joint oppression is like discovering that thestingy crusts of bread being held out by society have mold on them.
    • 2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face,International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, inThe New York Times‎[1]:
      As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and thenstingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point.
Usage notes
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Usage of "stingy of" was about as common as usage of "stingy with" until about 1900 but became much less common by and since 1920.

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Translations
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unwilling to spend or give
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Etymology 2

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Fromsting +‎-y.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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stingy (comparativestingier,superlativestingiest)

  1. (informal)Stinging; able or inclined to sting.
    • 2015, Kelvin Smith,Four Little Soldiers, page33:
      Bumble bee – Bumble bee / I send to you this sonnet, / But please don't be – Bumble bee / Thestingy bee in my bonnet.
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Translations
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able to sting

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